<p>50-52 raw mc + pretty well on free response should be good for a 5.</p>
<p>alright thanks 5ky.....court cases i shall need to focus in on then.</p>
<p>Anything specifically I should focus on to prepare for the essays at this point?</p>
<p>which one is better? PR or barron's? i have both - - i dont think i will have time to read both at this point.. im really scared... we had 4 teachers this year.. 2 of them were very bad... any other helpful hint?</p>
<p>I have princeton review and it seems to have everything, I say go with PR.</p>
<p>Wow 4 teachers?</p>
<p>Okay, I missed about 20 on my pratice MC with perfect essays on a in-class pratice test....</p>
<p>Is that enough for a 4????</p>
<p>And how many can I miss and still get a 5?</p>
<p>HELP.</p>
<p>if you're only going to study one thing, study the institutions of government (president, congress, judiciary, beaucracy(should probably learn how to spell it))</p>
<p>if anyone wants something relatively convenient to study for the MC, this site is helpful: <a href="http://www.quia.com/pages/apgovreview.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.quia.com/pages/apgovreview.html</a></p>
<p>yea i know! but we did have 4 teachers............... and one of them thought my friend is racist....#@$%^&* dont know where she got that from...
yea two of them were not cool at all;;;;;;</p>
<p>yea i will go with PR~ since barron's is so textbook-like.... wish me luck!</p>
<p>intreasting link</p>
<p>Yeah I am really scared for the essays, but MC should be fine. The graders of the essays don't really care if it's in "essay" format i.e. with an introductory paragraph, conclusion, etc., do they? My teacher basically said just to give reasons and examples and to not waste time with the extra stuff, but PR seems to indicate the opposite. Does anyone know?</p>
<p>My teacher said the same as your teacher. Just give them the meat of the essay</p>
<p>Thanks. That's what I thought and hoped, but I was getting a little worried.</p>
<p>don't bother with an introduction or a conclusion. my government teacher goes down to san antonio to grade the ap us history essays and he assures us that by the end of the week the readers will not want flowery and ornate language, and that's in history. this is government, which is far more factually based.</p>
<p>Cases and a little synopsis for each, anyone?</p>
<p>ill list as many as i can from memory, you guys try to give pertinent info</p>
<p>marbury v madison
mccouloughlhggh v maryland
gibbons v ogden
plessy v ferguson
brown v boe
brown v boe ii
gideon v wainwright
mapp v ohio
roe v wade
us v nixon
clinton v ny
uc regents v bakke
baker v carr
gitlow v ny
griswold v conn
miranda v arizona</p>
<p>i know i'm missing a few. carry on ladies and gentlement.</p>
<p>mccouloughlhggh lolololol</p>
<p>I'd also say:
Shaw v. Reno
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg BoE
Shenck v. United States
Brandenburg v. Ohio
New York Times v. United States
Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier
Lemon v. Kurtzman
Engel v. Vitale
Abington Township v. Schempp (both Abington and Engel are very similar, you don't really need to know both)
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States</p>
<p>I'd say just look these up if you have no idea what some of them are. The ones 5ky mentioned are probably more important.</p>
<p>the only ones i know of those are engel v vitale (no school prayer) and nyt v us (about the pentagon papers). other than that i'm clueless on those. though i assume lemon v kurtzman yielded the lemon test.</p>